Affect Quote by Ezra Taft Benson

The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed…

— Edward Everett Hale

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth…

— Alfred Kazin

The most important history is the history we make today.

— Henry Ford

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization…

— Madame de Stael

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the central issue…

— Francis Fukuyama

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is…

— Joe Kaeser

People think about history as all grand gestures or significant moments, but the most valuable lesson we can learn is the enduring legacy of…

— Deborah Harkness

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

— Chris Cleave

“The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought. The reason these great events are so rare…

— Gustave Le Bon

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

— Robert Smithson